Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDAnd yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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All of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
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And tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
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You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.
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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II.
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I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don’t have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.
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Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don’t think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries – the United States, Poland, Hungary, and many others
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Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend.
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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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Compared with how we’ve ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of refugees – far more, in fact, than we Americans have, even though our population is vastly larger.
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After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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